Its a two way street in that regard. Could Haunter have been a bit more courteous in his comments? Sure.
But, at the same time, the Devs (and Blizzard as a whole) have neglected these forums for far too long, even more so since they showed Jesse the door. For example, this doozy:
And what do they do a few months later??? Hold ANOTHER AMA on reddit while completely ignoring their OFFICIAL forums! And thats not the first time similar comments were made.
With all due respect Dean, you deserve the highly critical, passive aggressive comments, directed at you when you (infrequently) post here. Outside of this thread alone the last dev comment here was over 3 months ago. IIRC you mentioned on the old forums you wanted to “be more active here” (paraphrased), yet that has not been the case. You have a total of 12 posts on these forums in like 6 months, many of which were in the AMA session.
All I am saying @RinseWizard, is there is every reason for forum regulars to be irritated. If the devs as a whole were more active here, then they wouldnt get their metaphorical heads bitten off when they do post.